Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid this routine ignominy , you need to turn the journalists ' boredom to your own advantage . |
| 2 | IBM builds Other Peoples ' equipment into its systems . |
| 3 | ‘ Anthropologists ' study of human societies on this planet [ has ] revealed the condition of women to be a direct result of their peoples ' perception of their mysterious , fearsome , monthly flow of blood . ’ |
| 4 | On branches ' publicity for their courses and other events , he commented : |
| 5 | The pupils tested were identified in relation to the schools ' rating of their achievement . |
| 6 | But if he can leave all this behind , and wearing only ordinary casual clothes still keep up his peers ' belief in him , then the Town Boys are likely to accept him . |
| 7 | She had won the Fur and Feather Section with him at the Sandringham Show — ‘ Maybe that was because he was the only entry , ’ she observes drily — and later won the Palmer Cup for Pets ' Corner at her new school . |
| 8 | Paying 1% to intermediaries bringing in clients ' money to its lump-sum only Tessas , Save & Prosper ensures loyalty by imposing a £50 transfer fee . |
| 9 | Amongst firms wound up early on , Prior Harwin was alleged to have mixed clients ' money with its own , to have been mismanaged , and to have had insufficient indemnity insurance . |
| 10 | In 1893 a clerk named Alexander Howland Smith , more familiarly known as ‘ Antique ’ Smith because of his activities , received a sentence of twelve months ' imprisonment for his forgeries of a wide range of letters , including some from Carlyle , Thackeray and Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 11 | Unscrupulous operators took the two months ' imprisonment in their stride . |
| 12 | Chairman the , the mechanism is well practised and widely known it starts with the draft two two B in the January the Committee and after a period of about five to six months ' consultation within which the board programme of work of all capitalists are listed and put out to the community for response through their elected organization as to acceptability , five points of detail who were at relatively hirer one man to speak |
| 13 | Formally but icily they replied that they " do not desire to interfere with any views which he may have towards improving his position in life , but they expect that he will give them six months ' notice of his intention to resign the mastership of the School " . |
| 14 | Daniel 's work in 1974 showed that though 50 per cent of managers and professionals were given at least three months ' notice by their employers , the corresponding proportion for the unskilled was a mere 9 per cent . |
| 15 | Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down . |
| 16 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 17 | In theory at least , the Closed Record represents both parties ' case in its final form , and the Proof will proceed on the basis of those allegations . |
| 18 | In certain dispute resolution processes , for example mediation , conciliation and enquiry , a third party assists the parties in resolving the dispute , but that person 's function is to attempt to focus the parties ' interest in its resolution , not to widen its parameters beyond their concerns . |
| 19 | The team had a supporters ' club in which local women were represented . |
| 20 | In general , responses to direct or indirect questioning about non-standard varieties are always conditioned by speakers ' awareness of their social significance and usually reflect knowledge of the standard rules . |
| 21 | As Sinclair points out in his introduction ( p. xix ) , this fact about frequency does not determine the order of appearance of dictionary entries : there is the factor of the native speakers ' sense of what is the core meaning , for example . |
| 22 | The general approach in this ‘ Urban Safety Project ’ was to attempt to achieve a basic level of safety throughout an area by the use of measures to regulate turning manoeuvres , to discourage through traffic and to restrict speeds and increase drivers ' awareness of their environment . |
| 23 | The Italian Transport Minister , Carlo Bernini , said on Sept. 19 that an agreement had been reached with the truck drivers ' union under which all drivers seeking transit permits would be able to cross until the end of the year . |
| 24 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 25 | The blunt-talking Yorkshireman has been voted out as chairman of the Umpires ' Association by his fellow pros . |
| 26 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 27 | The manner of the defeat and the Forest fans ' reaction to it signalled that after 18 trophy-filled years under Brian Clough , the club could really be in trouble . |
| 28 | Greene found subjects ' performance in her sorting task supported this claim . |
| 29 | Propaganda could be used to undermine their subjects ' faith in their legitimacy , while a war of successful raids ( or chevauchèes ) might shake that confidence yet further by showing that , as kings , they lacked the power to fulfil one of their prime roles , the defence of their people against the English . |
| 30 | In the case of definite pronouns , we have shown that mapping from roles to roles and from roles to names can be influenced by manipulating the experimental task and , presumably subjects ' perception of it . |